Evening Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 01:30 AM CET - Jan,29 2002
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- Don't Look At 'Party' Pictures - Watch out for an e-mail with
the subject
line "My Party." It contains an attachment that contains a virus
... but nobody clicks on unsolicited attachments any more, do they? More Info : McAfee: W32/Myparty@MM,
Symantec/SARC: W32.Myparty@mm, Sophos:
W32/MyParty-A.
- Russian hacks into US bank - Identified only as Nikolai, the
suspect was arrested in Surgut, Siberia on 15 January after breaking into the web server
of Online Resources, a company that provides online banking services. According to police,
the hacker used this information to access a bank in New York. Nikolai then threatened to
publish account details unless the bank agreed to pay him $10,000. To add to his threat,
Nikolai published 1,500 account details online. The bank agreed and paid the money in
December last year. But Moscow police were able to track him by his IP address on emails back to his
house in Siberia.
- Odd Behavior in Windows XP Home - An unexpected behavior has
been observed when configuring Windows XP Home Edition. It appears that disabling the
Guest account (from the User Accounts tool) only removes the Log-On Local right. Guest
users are
still able to connect to shared resources across the network.
- More Online Security Woes For FBI's Data Firm - A page at
the vulnerable site, located at http://www.lienguard.com,
claimed the service allowed ChoicePoint customers to log in through a "highly
secure" system and to access a database of legal documents maintained by ChoicePoint.
Before it was patched this afternoon by ChoicePoint, the site, which runs Microsoft's
Internet Information Server (IIS) software, was vulnerable to
several widely known security exploits, including one that enables attackers to run
operating system commands on the server. A patch for the hole, referred to as the
"Double Decode" flaw, was released by Microsoft last May.
- XP successor Longhorn goes SQL, P2P - Microsoft leaks - Sources
close to Microsoft confirm that The Beast is set to include a new relational file store
at the core of its next version of Windows. Some roadmap slippage has apparently occurred,
too, as the database core will be introduced into Longhorn, and Blackcomb has been pushed
further back. That leaves a gap for a point revision of XP next year, although there's no
sign of this on the roadmap just yet.
- Intel, AMD cut PC chip prices - The chipmakers trims prices for
desktop PC processors by
up to 19 percent:: P4 1.6GHz now $133 (-18%), P4 1.7GHz now $166 (-16%), P4 1.8GHz now
$199(-14%), P4 1.9GHz now $241 (-12%), Celeron 1.GHz now $69 (-7%), Celeron 1.1GHz now $79
(-11%), Celeron 1.2Ghz now $89 (-14%), Celeron 1.3GHz now $103 (-13%), Xeon 1.7Ghz with
256k cache now $224 (-13%), Xeon 2GHz with 256K cache now $396 (-13%), Pentium III-S
1.13GHz now $170 (-16%), Pentium III-S 1.16GHz now $202 (-16%).
- GeForce4 Pricing And Clock Speed Info - According to the ReactorCritical.com, GeForce4 Ti4400: Core clocking: 350 MHz, Memory
configuration/clocking: 64 MB DDR SDRAM @ 275 (550) MHz; Approximate MSRP price: $399, GeForce4 Ti4600: Core clocking: 350 MHz;
Memory configuration/clocking: 128 MB DDR SDRAM @ 325 (650) MHz; Approximate MSRP price:
$399, GeForce4 MX460: Core clocking: 300
MHz; Memory configuration/clocking: 64 MB DDR SDRAM @ 275 (550) MHz; Approximate MSRP
price: $199, GeForce4 MX440: Core clocking:
270 MHz; Memory configuration/clocking: 64 MB DDR SDRAM @ 200 (400) MHz; Approximate MSRP
price: $149, GeForce4 MX420: Core clocking:
250 MHz, Memory configuration/clocking: 64 MB SDR SDRAM @ 166 MHz, Approximate MSRP price:
depending on configuration from $69 to $99.
- Maxtor's ATA133: Good Marketing or Bad Timing? - A few months
ago rumors started flying around about a new IDE standard that was causing some trouble in
the hard drive industry. Its name was ATA133 and it!¦s still causing trouble. Maxtor, one
of the largest world-wide manufacturers of hard drives seemed to be the only guys on board
to develop the new standard. Why? The world may never know, but it probably has cost them
a ton of money and in the end they will have little to show for it. Read more at AMDMB
- New Power Macs break 1GHz barrier - Apple Computer releases new
top-of-the-line Power Macs packing two 1GHz PowerPC G4 processors. Analysts and Mac users say this could
close the 'gigahertz gap' with PCs.
- Palm launches the i705 - The Palm i705,
set to replace the Palm VII model, uses the Palm.Net network to access e-mails and
stripped down Web pages via a built-in antenna. The Palm.Net service for the new handheld
is provided via Cingular Wireless' US nationwide mobitex-based packet data network. The
Palm i705 will sell for about $450.
- High-Speed Wireless Network to Debut - Sprint Corp. recently
announced plans to initiate nationwide service this summer. Verizon's service
initially will be available along the East Coast from Norfolk, Va., to Boston, and include
the San Francisco Bay area and Portland, Maine. Subscribers who want the new offering, called Express Network, will have to buy a
$300 adapter card for laptops and PDAs.
- AMD SledgeHammer Preview - Hardware Mania has posted an AMD
SledgeHammer preview.
- Protector XP Review - The
use of shims began in the days of CPU core-cracking due to sloppy cooler installations
or coolers that exerted too much pressure upon the fragile CPU cores. Typically, a
heatsink-fan combo can exert so much pressure on the core before it exceeds the weight
limit and clip-force specifications set out by both AMD and Intel. In the case of AMD
CPUs, the weight limit is 300 grams. As such large and heavy copper coolers typically
exceed that weight - shims have become the staple in the modern overclocking world.
- Logitech ClickSmart 510 Review - While Logitech is very well
known for their mice, they have their hands in many other devices, and recently took the
dive into the somewhat absent dual cam market with the introduction of the ClickSmart 310
and ClickSmart 510, the latter being focused on here.
- ATi Radeon 7500 Review - Radeon 7500 was not the fastest video
card to come out in 2001, but it was certainly one of the best value buys.
- ELSA GF3 Ti200 & Ti500 Review - Hardware One has posted a review
on the Elsa GF3 Ti200 & Ti500 based video cards.
- AVC Copper Skived Cooler Review -When I first saw the AVC I was
quite pleased. This is one nice looking unit. I have to admit that this is the first
copper finned cooler that I have seen and the change from the standard aluminium is great.
This cooler has a clear plastic fan with a nice holographic logo in the middle (not the
blue and white label pictured). Looks are secondary right? Lets find out how well it works shall we.
- Make a remote LCD case for $20 - This is using an LCD from
Matrix Orbiatal, but any LCD
could be used. I used CAT5 to carry the voltage because I have an abundance of it from
an interesting mission my roomate and I went on one night, but any cable could be used.
- Windows Media "Corona" Preview - Microsoft introduced
"Corona," its next generation of Windows Media technologies, at the Streaming
Media East 2001 conference in New York, but because of the surprise early birth of my
second child, Kelly, I wasn't able to attend. So I got a Corona demonstration a month
later at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and came away impressed. Here's what I found
out.
- Microsoft Personal Collection 2002 - As the cornerstone of Personal Collection, Personal Portfolio offers families more than 600
helpful templates for Word, Excel, the PowerPointr presentation graphics program and the
Outlookr messaging and collaboration client by giving them creative suggestions, options
and ideas to personalize any task. Portfolio and Collection will help consumers complete
personal projects, as well as those for school or a club, quickly and affordably. Personal
Collection 2002 is currently available in stores for an estimated retail price of $54.95
(US).
- Mandrake Linux 8.2 Beta 2 - MandrakeSoft has
released the second beta of Mandrake Linux 8.2 Download
- ePSXe v1.5.0 - ePSXe
is a new freeware Sony Playstation(PSX) emulator that takes advantage of the PSEmu Pro
plugin system. It is one of the best freeware Sony Playstation emulator
- Norton Antivirus Definition Update - The Norton Antivirus
4.0/5.0/2000 Definition Update has been released, release date January 28, 2002.
- Motherboard Monitor 5.1.0.5 Beta - Motherboard Monitor
(MBM) is a tool that will display information from the sensor chips on your motherboard in
your Windows system tray. MBM supports a wide range of Chipsets & Sensor Chip
combinations.
- WinRAR v3.00 beta 2 - This beta release
represents a milestone in WinRAR functionality combining significant increases in
compression capability, major ease-of-use additions and a dramatic drop in end-user
pricing. However it's still only beta :)
- CladDVD XP v1.0 - CloneAD's CladDVD XP is a DVD ripper for Windows XP, works on all DVD's from any
region and is completely FREE and CladMdec v1.6 is for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP. Like many CD/DVD based
programs, CladDVD XP and CladMdec require a valid ASPI layer to perform certain operations
correctly. If you don't have an up to date ASPI layer installed then download Compel WinASPI v4.60 (1021)
- Windows XP USB 2.0 Driver - USBMan.com has
posted MS USB 2.0 Drivers for WinXP. The Windows XP and Windows 2000 drivers
are two different drivers. XP Final Release Version and 2000 Beta RC2. Although, the
drivers are closely related, the drivers are not interchangeable.
- NVIDIA 27.20 Win9x/ME Detonators - The driver is dated 01/15/2002 (15th January 2002) and seems to
perform better then the 23.11 driver in OpenGL and Direct3D. Expect increase in image
quality as well.
- Radeon XP Driver - Club3D has Windows XP Ati Reference Driver
for Radeon. This Driver is for All ATI Radeon Cards. Download wxp-ref-7-60-010914b-1827c.exe.
- NVIDIA BIOS Editor v1.0 RC2 Rev120 - This new minor
version fixes bugs with Signon messages on nonreference bioses, Adds option to change
OEM Revision and multilingual support.
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